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Conducting is way over my head.
Conducting is a strange thing to teach.
I really want to get better at conducting.
The real art of conducting consists in transitions.
I'm conducting slowly because I don't know the tempo.
Conducting was just something that happened by fluke.
The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats.
I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me.
Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.
I'm composing more than before. I'm cutting down on conducting.
I love orchestrating music and conducting and being on Broadway.
There's a thing about film composing and conducting in my family.
My parents once caught me conducting Beethoven's 'Fifth Symphony.'
don't perspire while conducting - only the audience should get warm.
I actually don't like playing the piano or conducting the orchestra.
Conducting is like making love to a hundred people at the same time.
Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.
When I started, I'd never had a conducting lesson in my life; I could just do it.
My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.
I have so much regard for the art of conducting. It's easy to look not so good up there.
I started conducting lessons and I realized that this is actually something I like doing.
Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.
On conducting: If you can just barely hear the French horns on stage, the balance is perfect.
Lars von Trier is not not somebody who is known for conducting a normal press conference ever!
The beginning of Book Three is the last one that I drew, where V's conducting the 1812 overture.
We need to significantly increase the number of bombing runs we're conducting in Iraq and Syria.
Players have a great deal of flexibility when conducting diplomatic relations with their allies.
One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.
Conducting is about communication. You don't play any notes, but you communicate with the musicians.
As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.
I don't think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy.
The choice is not between conducting the stem cell research or not conducting it. That is not the choice.
The most difficult problem in conducting is intonation. You must know what is wrong and how to correct it.
I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.
No public servant or legislator can claim any privacy to take money for conducting their official functions.
That's really the Holy Grail of conducting: how to change the sound of an orchestra just with our hands alone.
I kind of alternate between conducting and playing and kind of juggling those things, but I don't use a baton.
Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.
Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren’t.
This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience.
You can't expect someone born into a family with no music...to understand when I'm conducting the Schönberg Variations.
Copper is a superb cooking metal, conducting heat so evenly it has unparalleled control, especially at low temperatures.
You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
I have a degree in music, yeah, from the University of Montana. I studied voice and composition and conducting and all that.
We're really willing to see more and more U.S. entrepreneurs conducting investments in Turkey. I'm optimistic for the future.
It's been very exciting for me to start directing and conducting, exploring the symphonic repertoire, which I've always loved.
It's been thrown up to me most of my life: Why don't I just concentrate on conducting or composing or my own playing or on jazz?
There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never will.
When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?